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1.nounA container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items."I need a bucket to carry the water from the well."
2.nounThe amount held in this container."The horse drank a whole bucket of water."
3.nounA unit of measure equal to four gallons.
4.nounPart of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
5.nounAn old vehicle that is not in good working order.
6.nounThe basket."The forward drove to the bucket."
7.nounA field goal."We can't keep giving up easy buckets."
8.noun(variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
9.nounA storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
10.noun(chiefly in the plural) A large amount of liquid."I was so nervous that I sweated buckets."
11.nounA bucket bag.
12.nounThe leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
13.nounThe pitcher in certain orchids.
14.verbTo place inside a bucket.
15.verbTo draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets."to bucket water"
16.verbTo rain heavily."It’s really bucketing down out there."
17.verbTo travel very quickly."The boat is bucketing along."
18.verbTo categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
19.verbTo ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
20.verbTo make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.